For you singers - hardest Stevie song to sing (subtitled, "Jazz, you will love this")

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and make sound good, of course.

I vote preliminarily for Wild Heart. There are some others that for lack of sheer Stevie voice quality are difficult (the throatiness and all) like Edge. And like, Stand Back is hard because it's kind of atonal, so you need Stevie's special throaty yet tuneful voice to make it sound cool/good - and that is a special quality - to be throaty, and make atonal music sound tuneful - but for more normal songs, I vote WH. It doesn't necessarily rely on her special tone, and goddamn, it's all over the place. Huge range in that song. Erratic range. But techinically not reliant on her special tone. But even without her special tone, her special melodically strange brilliance is definitely at play. It's not just the range, it's the strangeness of the intervals of the range. Honestly, I can't even believe she thought of all those notes. I mean, I can, because it's Stevie, and I'm always amazed at the notes she thought of singing, but this one is extra. What the hell?! She doesn't even ever sing regular notes, regular intervals, and regular melodies! She's f*cking brilliant, I says. Whoever else has thought of such strange sh*t to sing? Most people use regular notes, and regular intervals. Not our girl. Our girl makes up some crazy singing sh*t. I mean, she made all those songs up, all those different, weird songs. All those different melodies, she did that. So strange! That's why, even though her lyrics could be called into question at times, I still say she's uncommonly brill. Have you heard another singer make up such strange stuff, ever? There are other greater singers, and other greater lyricists, but none has ever turned a weird note like Stevie can. Or turned a harmony like she can. I've studied a lot of music, and in the midst of some of Stevie's mediocrity (mostly lyrical) no one has ever turned a note the way she has, ever thought of those notes, let alone over a whole career of writing their own songs, let alone as harmonies with other people or herself that she has thought of.

I've never heard anything even approaching her unusual vocalness, no matter the talent involved. That is why when people criticize her, I understand, because, you know, she says some stupid sh*t (objectively - subjectively I usually understand it) but for vocal brilliance and uniqueness, I truly believe she hasn't been rivaled. She really has a special voice, and a special brain for her voice. Of course her harmonies are my favorite part of that brilliance.
I've searched, and tried to compare, and looked for, something even remotely like her talent. It just isn't there. Which isn't to say that there aren't bunches of super talented people, just to say a talent like hers, I've never seen.
I think Ann Wilson is the pentultimate of vocalists, and some other people, but none of those people would have ever thought of, or have been able to sing, what Stevie has thought of or sang. They would have never thought of her weird notes! Or her weird harmonies! Despite their overload of super talent!


Okay, sorry, sometimes I get on these things of feeling like Stevie is actually pretty underappreciated, talent wise, despite her popularity. I feel like some just see her as...I dunno, but something less than the super brilliant vocalist melody maker that she is. I could give two rats asses about her image, it's her strange and beautiful voice that has always intrigued me. Think of, for instance, the difference between "Enchanted" and "Kind of Woman" and on and on with the differences. Maybe everyone is more musical than me, but I can't imagine thinking of all the different melodies she's ever made up.

I mean, think, she's made up millions of different songs! It's all her singing, but they are very different, music/note wise, if not lyrically.

I just think people take that for granted. I mean, hey, you go and try to make up that many different melodies to songs, and write lyrics for them. Yeah, it's pretty hard, isn't it? And so I hate that to be underrated. I truly think she is inimitable.

It's a voice that comes along once in a million years. For reals. Just think of the layers in Nightbird. My god. Seriously.

What about you? I know there are millions of good singers here. Within the realm of possibility, I find WH incredibly taxing. I also find it vocally brilliant. I'm kinda sad that no one but us has never heard it.